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• cycle 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• My other computer is even slower.
• On Leighton James: You're very deceptive, son, you're even slower than you look.
• VAXectomy /vak-sek't*-mee/ n. [by analogy with `vasectomy'] A VAX removal.
  DEC's Microvaxen, especially, are much slower than newer RISC-based workstations such as the SPARC....
• VAXectomy: /vak-sek't*-mee/ [by analogy with `vasectomy'] n.
  A VAX removal. DEC's Microvaxen, especially, are much slower than newer RISC-based workstations such as the SPARC....
• A mathematician named Hall Has a hexahedronical ball, And the cube of its weight Times his pecker's, plus eight Is his phone number -- give him a call.
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